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Research Products

This research team has enjoyed many years of fruitful collaboration which has produced several publications in peer-reviewed journals, abstracts and invited presentations at professional meetings. Listed below are the research products.

Publications

  1. Gardiner J, Hogan A, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D, Griffith L, Kupersmith J. Confidence-Intervals for Cost-Effectiveness Ratios. Medical Decisionmaking 1995;15(3):254-63.
  2. Kupersmith J, Hogan A, Guerrero P, Gardiner J, et al. Evaluating and Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of the Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator. American Heart Journal 1995;130(3):507-15.
  3. Kupersmith J, Holmes-Rovner M, Hogan A, Rovner D, Gardiner J. Cost-effectiveness analysis in heart-disease. 1. General principles. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases 1994;37(3):161-184.
  4. Kupersmith J, Holmes-Rovner M, Hogan A, Rovner D, Gardiner J. Cost-effectiveness analysis in heart-disease. 2. Preventive therapies. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases 1995;37(4):243-71.
  5. Kupersmith J, Holmes-Rovner M, Hogan A, Rovner D, Gardiner J. Cost-effectiveness analysis in heart-disease. 3. Ischemia, congestive-heart-failure, and arrhythmias. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases 1995;37(5):307-46.
  6. Gardiner J, Holmes-Rovner M, Goddeeris J, Rovner D, Kupersmith J. Covariate-adjusted cost-effectiveness ratios. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 1999;75(2):291-304.
  7. Gardiner JC, Huebner M, Jetton J, Bradley CJ. Power and sample size assessments for tests of hypotheses on cost-effectiveness ratios. Health Economics 2000;9(3):227-34.
  8. Gardiner JC, Bradley CJ, Huebner M. The cost-effectiveness ratio in the analysis of health care programs. In: Rao CR, Sen PK, eds. Handbook of Statistics, Bioenvironmental and Public Health Statistics. New York: North-Holland, 2000: 841-69.
  9. Gardiner JC, Huebner M, Jetton J, Bradley CJ. On parametric confidence intervals for the cost-effectiveness ratio. Biometrical Journal 2001;43(3):283-96.
  10. Indurkhya A, Gardiner JC, Luo Z. The effect of outliers on confidence interval procedures for cost-effectiveness ratios. Statistics in Medicine 2001;20(9-10):1469-77.
  11. Gardiner JC, Indurkhya A, Luo Z. The performance of estimation procedures for cost-effectiveness ratios. In: Balakrishnan N, ed., Advances on Methodological and Applied Aspects of Probability and Statistics. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2002: 547-59.
  12. Gardiner JC, Polverejan E. Longitudinal models for the analysis of health care costs and outcomes. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Section on Health Policy Statistics [CD-ROM] 2002, New York, NY.
  13. Gardiner JC, Luo Z, Bradley CJ, Polverejan E, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D. Longitudinal assessment of cost in health care interventions. Health Services & Outcomes Research Methodology 2002;3:148-69.
  14. Polverejan E, Gardiner JC, Bradley CJ, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D. Estimating mean hospital cost as a function of length of stay and patient characteristics. Health Economics 2003;12:935-47.
  15. Bradley CJ, Given CW, Baser O, Gardiner JC. Influence of surgical and treatment choices on the cost of breast cancer care. European Journal of Health Economics 2003;4:96-101.
  16. Baser O, Bradley CJ, Gardiner JC, Given CW. Testing and correcting for non-random selection bias due to censoring: An application to medical costs. Health Services & Outcomes Research Methodology 2003;4:93-107.
  17. Rahbar MH, Sikorski A, Gardiner JC. Regression analysis of medical costs with right censored data in the presence of discrete covariates. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association: Biometrics Section [CD-ROM] 2003, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
  18. Baser O, Gardiner JC, Bradley CJ, Yuce H, Given CW. Longitudinal analysis of censored medical costs data. In Review. 2003.
  19. Baser O, Bradley CJ, Gardiner JC, Given CW. Testing and correcting for non-random selection bias due to censoring: An application to medical costs. Health Services & Outcomes Research Methodology 2003; 4:93-107.
  20. Baser O, Bradley CJ, Gardiner JC. Estimation from censored medical costs. Biometrical Journal 2004 46:351-63.
  21. Gardiner JC, Sirbu CM, Rahbar MH. Update on sample size and power assessments for cost-effectiveness studies. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research 2004 4(1):89-98.
  22. Rahbar MH, Gardiner JC. Nonparametric modeling of the mean survival time in a multi-factor design based on randomly right-censored data. Biometrical Journal 2004;46(5):497-502.
  23. Gardiner JC, Sirbu CM. Estimating medical costs from a transition model. In Review. 2004.
  24. Corser WD, Gardiner JC, DeFranco A, Holmes-Rovner M, Sirbu CM, Watson RE, Kupersmith J. Changes in acute myocardial infarction procedure rates and subsequent patient mortality. In Review. 2004.
  25. Evonich RF, Maheshwari A, Gardiner JC, Khasnis A, Kantipudi S, Ip JH, et al. Implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in patients with ischemic or non-ischemic cardiomyopathy and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology 2004;11(1):59-65.
  26. Bradley CJ, Gardiner JC, Given CW, Roberts CR. Cancer, Medicaid enrollment and survival disparities. Cancer 2005.

Abstracts and Presentations

  1. Guererro P, Hogan A, Gardiner J, Mellits D, Baumgardner R, Levine J, Rovner D, Holmes-Rovner M, Griffith L, Kupersmith J.  Strategies to improve cost effectiveness of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator. Clinical Research 1993; 41(2):122a, presented.
  2. Guererro P, Hogan A, Gardiner J, Mellits D, Baumgardner R, Levine J, Rovner D, Holmes-Rovner M, Griffith L, Kupersmith J. New approach to determination of cost/effectiveness of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator. Clinical Research 1993; 41(2):234a, presented.
  3. Guererro P, Hogan A, Gardiner J, Mellits D, Baumgardner R, Rovner D, Holmes-Rovner M, McLane A, Levine J, Griffith L, Kupersmith J.  Relationship of cost effectiveness of the transthoracic implantable cardioverter defibrillator to patient category and clinical strategy. Circulation Supplement 1993; 88:I-44.
  4. Guererro P, Hogan A, Gardiner J, Mellits D, Baumgardner R, Rovner D, Holmes-Rovner M, McLane A, Levine J, Saksena S, Griffith L, Kupersmith J. Improving the cost effectiveness of the Transvenous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1994; 23:206a.
  5. Gardiner J, Hogan A, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D, Griffith L, Kupersmith J.  Estimation of confidence intervals for average cost-effectiveness and cost-effectiveness ratios from survival data.  Clinical Research 1994; 42(2):224a, presented.
  6. Hogan A, Saksena S, Gardiner J, Mellits ED, Baumgardner RA, Rovner DR, Holmes-Rovner M, McLane AM, Levine J, Griffith L, Kupersmith J. The subpectoral transvenous implantable cardioverter defibrillator is a cost effective intervention.  American College of Cardiology 44th Annual Scientific Session, 1994.
  7. Gardiner J, Hogan A, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D, Griffith L, Kupersmith J. Confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness ratios. Biometrics Society 1995, presented.
  8. Gardiner J, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D, Goddeeris J, Kupersmith J.  Cost-effectiveness ratios in multi-state Markov models. Biometrics Society, Spring Meeting, 1996, Richmond, VA, presented.
  9. Abela G, Mitra R, Dwamena F, Gardiner J, Vasilenko P, Kroll J, Kupersmith J. Elevation in blood glucose is associated with complications during myocardial infarction—MICH Study.  American Heart Association 69th Session, 1996.
  10. Dwamena F, Mitra R, Watson R, Gardiner J, Abela G, Vasilenko P, Kupersmith J. Do community physicians prescribe angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors to patients with acute myocardial infarction?—MICH Study. American Heart Association 69th Session 1996.
  11. Watson R, Mitra R, Dwamena F, Kroll J, Vasilenko P, McIntosh B, Gardiner J, Manfred Stommel, Kupersmith J. Race influences the rate of cardiac catheterization, but does not influence the rate of PTCA and CABG following acute myocardial infarction?—MICH Study. American Heart Association 69th Session 1996.
  12. Gardiner J, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D, Goddeeris J, Kupersmith J.  Covariate-adjusted cost-effectiveness ratios. Biometrics Society, Spring Meeting, 1997, Memphis, TN, presented.
  13. Gardiner J, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D, Goddeeris J, Kupersmith J.  Covariate-adjusted cost-effectiveness ratios. Society for Medical Decisionmaking, Annual Meeting, 1997, Houston, TX, presented.
  14. Gardiner J, Huebner M, Jetton J, Bradley CJ. Power assessments and confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness analyses. Medical Decisionmaking 1998;18(4):465, presented.
  15. Gardiner J, Huebner M, Jetton J, Bradley, C.  Power assessments and confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness studies. International Indian Statistical Association, 1998, McMaster University, Canada, presented.
  16. Bradley CJ, Gardiner JC, Luo Z, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D.  The Health and Activities Limitation Index: A means to estimate for population-based quality-adjusted life years. Society for Medical Decisionmaking. Submitted. 1999.
  17. Gardiner JC, Polverejan E, Pathak PK. Modeling costs and health outcomes jointly: Application to cost-effectiveness analyses. Society for Medical Decisionmaking: Med Decis Making 1999; 19 (4):542, presented
  18. Polverejan E, Gardiner JC, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D. Joint analysis of in-hospital length of stay and cost. Biometrics Society, Spring Meeting, 2000, Chicago, IL, presented.
  19. Polverejan E, Gardiner JC, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D. A multivariate model to assess jointly the correlates of length of stay and hospital cost associated with cardiac procedures.  Society for Medical Decisionmaking. Submitted, 2000.
  20. Polverejan E, Gardiner JC. Estimating medical cost in longitudinal studies. Biometrics Society, Spring Meeting, 2001, Charlotte NC, presented.
  21. Luo Z, Rappley MD, Gardiner JC. Analyzing health care utilization with count regression models: application to children in Michigan Medicaid. Biometrics Society, Spring Meeting, 2001, Charlotte NC, presented
  22. Gardiner JC, Luo Z,  Polverejan E, Bradley CJ, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D. Longitudinal assessment of cost in health care interventions. Biometrics Society, Spring Meeting, 2002, Arlington, VA, presented.
  23. Gardiner JC, Polverejan E. Longitudinal assessment of cost in health care interventions: Application to cost-effectiveness analysis. Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, 2002, New York, NY, presented.
  24. Bradley CJ, Given CW, Baser,O, Gardiner JC. Initial surgery determines subsequent costs of breast cancer care. Med Decisionmaking 2002:22(6);540, presented.
  25. Soundarraj D, Evonich R, Gardiner J, Mungee  S, Khasnis A, Kantipudi S, Ip J, Thakur RK. Inappropriate therapy in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy compared to patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. XIIth and World Congress on Cardiac Pacing Electrophysiology, 2003, Hong Kong, presented.
  26. Soundarraj D, Evonich R, Gardiner J, Mungee  S, Khasnis A, Kantipudi S, Ip J, Hayter G, Thakur RK. Do dual chamber ICDs reduce the incidence of inappropriate ICD therapy (IT)? XIIth and World Congress on Cardiac Pacing Electrophysiology, 2003, Hong Kong, submitted.
  27. Baser O, Bradley CJ, Gardiner JC, Given CW. Testing and correcting for nonrandom sample selection bias due to censoring. Society for Medical Decisionmaking, 2003, Chicago IL, presented.
  28. Gardiner JC, Sirbu CM. Assessing medical costs from a transition model. Symposium on Health Policy Analysis and Health Services Research, 2003, Portland, ME, presented.
  29. Gardiner JC. New developments in cost-effectiveness analysis. Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association 2003, San Francisco, CA, presented.
  30. Gardiner JC. Estimating costs and outcomes from a longitudinal model. International Conference on Healthcare Policy Research, 2003, Chicago, IL, presented.
  31. Sirbu CM, Gardiner JC. A transition model for assessing medical costs. Biometrics Society, Spring Meeting, 2004, Pittsburgh, PA, presented.
  32. Gardiner JC, Luo Z, Sirbu CM, Bradley CJ, Given CW. A multi-state stochastic model for assessing covariate effects on survival and cost. Society for Medical Decisionmaking 2004, Atlanta, GA.

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